Roast beef for Sunday dinner, with a Yorkshire pudding made of the white meal, now that's really something! Down Easters consider the powdery meal indispensable as a dusting flour when pan-frying fish. And in johnny-cake there can be no substitute, not at least for a Rhode Island cook.
The Trinacria Importing Company at 29th Street and Third Avenue, one of Manhattan's outstanding Italian bazaars, is a store of color, of character. The clublike provolone cheeses form a golden brown tapestry hanging by ropes from the overhead rafters. Big salamis in their midst and those little shavers, the supersaltis.
Great gunny sacks with their tops back show off the lentils, the beans, the shining chestnuts from Italy. One side of the store is jam-packed with gay bas-kets with the clay cooking pots classic in form. Dried fruits form a colorful embankment—apricots, prunes, apples, pears, figs, and raisins. Peels, too, of orange, of citron, winking gold, winking green.
Around five in the evening there is the never-ceasing whirr of the slicing machine. Customers wait in line to buy the prosciutto, the Italian-style ham. Year in and year out there is the fresh panettone, that rich sweet Italian loaf packed with fruit peels.
Trinacria has recently installed a coffee roaster in their basement and can give you a fresh roast on order. They roast almonds in the shell, so nice to munch with a sweet wine at the end of the meal; people have time for things like that now.
There is scarcely an Italian food available in the city that Trinacria doesn't carry. They have the fresh ravioli, the various Italian sauces in tins. What is your search for? Torroni? The har Roman cheese for grating? Italian olives? Macaroons imported from Italy? Trinacria will have what you want. They mail things out if the order is ＄5 or more.
Lapsang Smoky souchong, with the old-time twang, and Formosa oolong of finest quality and fragrance are available again, for the first time in several years. Some ordinary grades of these have been around the market during recent months but not exciting enough to interest tea lovers. Now after many months of persistent effort, Simpson&Vail, Inc., of 89 Front Street, New York City, have secured these teas of truly top quality.
Other rarities in stock include: choice Darjeeling, Travencore, Ceylon, China black and China green and Japan green of finest grades. As usual their prices are decidedly lower than what specialty shops charge for teas which lack such outstanding quality.
Customers are guaranteed satisfaction. You don't pay for the purchase until after receiving shipment. Then the bill wanders in.
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